Brownies

Requirements met:

• Show how to handle kitchen utensils safely. These should include knives and scissors
• Show and explain how to be safe in the kitchen
• Explain the basics of food hygiene
• Make a healthy dish showing you can prepare fresh fruits, vegetables or salad. Arrange it in an appetising way

Brownies visit Kent Life and take part in a Soup’s On workshop. After a brief safety instruction which includes using knives and food hygiene, Brownies use seasonal vegetables, grown at Kent Life where possible, to make a big pot of vegetable soup to take home. While the soup is cooking, they play a game of Vegetable Bingo and learn about local, seasonal food.

Prices: £4.80 admission per child, plus £95 for Brownies – Cook Badge workshop. Must be pre-booked and subject to availability.
Capacity: Maximum 30 children per session.

Notes: Brownies must be adequately supervised at all times with a ratio of 1:5 (adults free of charge). A lunchroom is provided. This will not fulfil all requirements to gain the badge. Badges must be provided by the group.

Requirements met: 

• Visit your local museum to find out about some of the collections and exhibits
• Talk with an adult you know about how the area where you live has changed
• Make a dish that is traditional to your local area or culture. Share it with other Brownies

Brownies visit Kent life and meet Mrs Brundle, the farmer’s wife who used to own the Kent Life farm. She takes them on a tour of Kent Life. She will show them the historic houses and talk about how people used to live in Victorian times, during WWII and in the 1950s, and how things changed over the years. She will also help them explore the oast house, hoppers’ huts and the hop garden and explain their importance in Kent. She will then teach the Brownies to make Kentish Huffkins, a kind of bread roll, to take home.

Prices: £4.80 admission per child, plus £95 for Brownies – Culture Badge workshop. Must be pre-booked and subject to availability.
Capacity: Maximum 30 children per session.

Notes: Brownies must be adequately supervised at all times with a ratio of 1:5 (adults free of charge). A lunchroom is provided. This will fulfil all requirements to gain the badge. Badges must be provided by the group.

Requirements met:

• Make a poster or leaflet about your favourite animal showing:
  • What it eats
  • Where it comes from
  • What kind of exercise it needs
  • How it likes to play
• Find out about working animals like guide dogs or horses. Explain how they are trained and why they are useful
• Visit you nearest zoo, animal sanctuary or wildlife reserve. Find out about some of the animals that live there, including at least one you hadn’t heard of before. Make a scrapbook about your visit
• Describe how life is different for animals that live in the wild to those that live in captivity

Brownies visit Kent Life to learn about our animals. They can either do a self-guided visit with a free Cuddle Corner session where they meet some of our small animals, such as rabbits, guinea pigs or chickens. Or they can enjoy a 45-minute Meet the Animals workshop (extra charge, must be pre-booked) where one of the Kent Life Entertainers shows the Brownies a larger number of our animals, such as the pigs, the sheep, the goats etc. and tells them what they eat, how they live etc. Included in this will be our horses and donkeys as working animals, and the alpacas, quails and ferrets as animals that not everyone has heard of before.

Prices: £4.80 admission per child, plus optional £2 per child for Meet the Animals workshop. Must be pre-booked and subject to availability.
Capacity: Maximum 15 children per session.

Notes: Brownies must be adequately supervised at all times with a ratio of 1:5 (adults free of charge). A lunchroom is provided. Making a poster and scrapbook are not part of the activity at Kent Life. This will not fulfil all requirements to gain the badge. Badges must be provided by the group.

Requirements met:

• Identify 3 of the following: common wild birds, common butterflies, wild mammals
• Make a feeding station. This could be for hedgehogs, insects, birds, frogs or other creatures that aren’t pets. With permission, put it up in a suitable place
• Choose and do one of the following:
  • Organise an RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch in your garden, local park or school grounds. Invite other Brownies, your friends or family to join in. Make a record of the birds that visit during one hour
  • Visit a nature reserve or country park. Draw pictures or take photographs of at least four different types of trees. Make leaf and bark rubbings. Label them with the names of the trees

Brownies visit Kent Life and discover all about the wildlife that lives there. Guided by our Nature Detective they search for the birds, butterflies and mammals that have made Kent Life their home. They learn where to find them, how to identify them and how they live. The Brownies make a feeding station. Depending on the season, this could be a bird feeder, butterfly feeder or hedgehog feeding bowl. Then, depending on the season and/or your preference, Brownies can either do a Big Garden Birdwatch and record their findings, or do a Tree Project where they draw at least 4 different types of trees, make leaf and bark rubbings, with labels.

Prices: £4.80 admission per child, plus £95 for Brownies – Wildlife Explorer workshop. Must be pre-booked and subject to availability.
Capacity: Maximum 30 children per session.

Notes: Brownies must be adequately supervised at all times with a ratio of 1:5 (adults free of charge). A lunchroom is provided. This will not fulfil all requirements to gain the badge. Badges must be provided by the group.